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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In this <a href="http://512solutions.com/Blog/leadership/leadership-competencies-and-capacities-part-1/">series of posts</a>, we have been exploring leadership development from two perspectives - competencies and capacities. In our last post, we focused on the limiting internal belief of <a href="http://512solutions.com/Blog/leadership/leadership-competencies-and-capacities-part-3/">Controlling</a>. Today, our focus is on Protecting.</p>
<p><strong>Limiting Internal Beliefs: Protecting</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>The Protecting Dimension measures the belief that you can protect yourself and establish a sense of self-worth through withdrawal, remaining distant, hidden, cynical, superior, and/or rational. Essentially, people stay safe by acting aloof and maintaining distance in their relationships. Safety means being above it all. This stance can come from an inner lack of confidence, self-doubt, inferiority, or its opposite superiority. It may well be that you project an air of superiority, needing to be right, find fault, and put others down as a strategy to build yourself up.</p>
<p>There are a number of internal assumptions that people with high Protecting tendencies use to organize their identity.</p>
<ul><li>For me to be right, others have to be wrong (or vice versa)</li>
<li>I am worthwhile if I am right and find the weaknesses in others</li>
<li>I am valuable because of my superior capability or insight</li>
<li>I am not good enough</li>
<li>I am safe and acceptable if I remain small, uninvolved, and avoid risk</li>
</ul><p>Leaders with these internal beliefs are often seen as acting superior, cynical, and faultfinding. And, these tendencies are often intertwined with a strong streak of self-criticism and self-doubt causing you to hold back from making your full contribution, not asserting yourself and playing small.</p>
<p>Do any of these internal beliefs above describe you? How are they impacting your leadership effectiveness? What can you do to challenge those internal assumptions? What would be the impact?</p>
<p>In our next post, we'll explore the next limiting belief - Complying.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><a href="/Blog/tag/leadership-capacities" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">leadership capacities</a>, <a href="/Blog/tag/leadership-competencies" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">leadership competencies</a>, <a href="/Blog/tag/leadership-development" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">leadership development</a>, <a href="/Blog/tag/management" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">management</a>, <a href="/Blog/tag/management-development" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">management development</a><div class="field field-name-field-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/Blog/category/leadership" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Leadership</a></div></div></div>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:47:35 +0000Sal Silvester3651 at http://www.512solutions.comhttp://www.512solutions.com/Blog/leadership/leadership-competencies-and-capacities-part-4#comments